This area of emphasis represents the core courses for students who want to explore a broad area of courses in the arts and humanities including Art History, Music, Theater, Journalism, Dance, Communication and Modern Languages.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Communication: The student will demonstrate proficiency in communication skills, including active listening, textual interpretation and comprehension, and oral and written expression.
- Critical Thinking: The student will demonstrate proficiency in identifying and clarifying issues, problems, questions, and assumptions analyzing data and relevant information including alternative approaches differentiating between facts, opinions, and biases synthesizing and generating solutions and possible outcomes and using evidence and reasoning to support conclusions.
- Civic Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning in a Diverse Society: The student will demonstrate proficiency in understanding, and engaging with, contemporary notions of the public good in a democratic and diverse society, and the relevant principles, concepts, and arguments that guide ethical decision-making.
- Quantitative Analysis and Scientific Reasoning: The student will demonstrate proficiency in the interpretation and description of quantitative data and situations, and relevant graphs, symbols, or mathematical relationships and concepts to solve problems.
- Arts & Cultural Awareness: The student will demonstrate proficiency in the identification, recognition, description, and explanation of his or her interaction with, and understanding of, cultural practices and social structures.
Application Deadline: Fall: May 15 Spring: October 15 Summer: January 1